Winifred Johnson-Marquart is the president of the Johnson Family Foundation and an heir to the SC Johnson family fortune. The foundation focuses on the environment and issues such as early education and infant mortality. Today the SC Johnson company has sales of $10 billion and is best known for brands such as Ziploc, Glade, Drano and Pledge. Her brother Fisk leads SC Johnson; sister Helen Johnson-Leipold runs Johnson Financial and Johnson Outdoors. Winifred lives with her husband and four children in Virginia Beach, the only Johnson sibling to live outside of their hometown of Racine, Wisc. More »

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This story is featured in the latest FORBES 400 issue, newsstand date October 10, 2011.

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